skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's impossible to disagree with -- we have to eliminate the terrorist military leadership that perpetrated a massacre. Why would they get a permanent cease fire?

To your point, in my varied Israeli media diet, it's well-understood in the entire Israeli press that Bibi went out of his way to torpedo it by saying this simple idea over and over. The only question is whether this show he has a spine (willing to lose an eventual vote just to defeat the terrorists), or that he's weak (willing to lose the hostages to retain his political position) A majority is weary of it because the implementation of the specifics is "we will work our way through the refugee camp and then ???" and they feel they've seen that plan before.

We can confirm this is from an unbiased perspective by noting that the protests kicked up a notch, and the TV presenter outed the anonymous diplomatic source as him, and then perusing original sourcing as to why. (to share something I learned re: sourcing, Haaretz will be seen as some interlocutors as a left-wing rag doing performances for overseas audiences, Times of Israel is better)
> I’m not sure about “dark day for the media” but it does feel like a dark day for Israel.

I would never expect any theocracy to be a bastion of democracy. Israel can't really realize its goals and be free at the same time. Those goals are not compatible.
Yes, the following countries improved their scores between 2023 and 2024 and passed the US (71.22 -> 66.59) in the ranking: Chile (60.09 -> 67.32), Ghana (65.93 -> 67.71), Poland (67.66 -> 69.17), Fiji (59.27 -> 71.23), Armenia (70.61 -> 71.6), Slovenia (70.59 -> 72.6), Mauritania (59.45 -> 74.2), Suriname (70.62 -> 76.11).

I agree that whether or not perpetrators are tried is relevant to the country, but I don't agree that it's relevant to this metric or to the dead journalists. They don't come back to life if their murderer is imprisoned, and the arrest rate doesn't have any impact on how dangerous it was to be a journalist that year. If they were to do a forward-looking report on the outlook for journalists in each country in the next 10 years or so, then I do think the effectiveness of the justice system might be relevant.

In the Indian cases named in the 2018 report, arrests were made: https://apnews.com/general-news-eb9e0dbcdbab4d93a2d90767c270..., https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/madhya-pradesh-journal....

The situation in Mexico was a bit more grim, but in at least one of the cases the police did make several arrests: https://cpj.org/data/people/mario-leonel-gomez-sanchez/.
>> more than enough evidence that israel is losing legitimacy

>Open to being convinced, but do you have a source?

A state's legitimacy hinges not only on diplomatic relations with other states but also significantly on public perception and global discourse. This is particularly evident in the case of Israel, where many now view it as a racist colonial entity which is a danger to israel's legitimacy. As I've stated before, your judgment on this seems to be extremely shortsighted, you may dismiss the countless of crucial events of the past months but israelis certainly don't, they speak of the existential threat of "delegitimization" of israel and they are fighting it tooth an nail[0]. Why would they so fiercely fight the "delegitimization" of israel if they didn't see it as a real & existential threat?

>> I've never seen such insane amount of regular folks, from diverse backgrounds and political affiliations, who fearlessly speak truth about israel

>Plenty of batshit crazy stuff seems widespread on the internet.

Without "batshit crazy" people israel couldn't even survive, those "batshit crazy" evangelicals have immense influence on policy.
Furthermore, your dismissal is a bit flippant, the people I've seen speak out are sensible & reasonable; people from whom I would have never expected to hear harsh truths about the zionist colonial project.

>> they fear losing legitimacy

>Sure. They should. America fears China annexing Taiwan; that isn't evidence it's happening.

I don't think that is an adequate comparison. I'm not interested in writing an essay on how different those conflicts are, I'm pretty sure you know enough about that.

>> dictators in the middle east, who are puppets of the US and Israel, are fearing of losing their own legitimacy

>The ones who helped Israel repel Iran's attack?

Yes, the article[1] I linked above literally mentions that and I really don't see how your point diminishes in any way what I've argued for.

[0] The Diane and Guilford Foundation that grants this fellowship to you has as its stated mission "the prosperity and safety of Israel". Their grant focuses include "confronting the delegitimization of Israel" and to advance "Israel's geopolitical interests" https://x.com/birdelaire/status/1784413355236790382

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240415-jordans-treachery...
I just wanted to say that I sympathize with many of the things you describe in your linked post. I didn't have it anywhere near as rough as you, but: I had a motorcycle accident: I've felt the strange cold of a nasal feeding tube filling with the neon blue fluid food; I lost something like 35 pounds spending a month in the ICU; I've experienced both an NG tube going in and coming out, and how weird that feels -- same for removing a chest tube: it doesn't really hurt, it just feels wrong; I've had a catheter, so I know all about how wrong that feels; and of course I know about the constipation as well.

I've felt hopeless as they dialed back the ventilator prepping to take me off it, and I've been so weak I got stuck in the bathtub.

So: best of luck, and best of doctors to you.
These emails were released as part of the antitrust lawsuit against Google currently being pursued by the FTC. It seems to me that contrary to the FTC's claims about how Google's monopoly power leads it to stop innovating, exactly the opposite is true. If Google had stopped innovating it's clear that Bing eventually would have caught up in terms of quality. As these emails make clear though, Google kept its lead by continuing to invest in cutting-edge AI research.

Indeed, if anything it's Microsoft who should be scrutinized.
They did fall behind initially, before "The Internet Tidal Wave" memo was written and Microsoft fully mobilized to fight Netscape. Bill Gates was convinced that proprietary networks like the original MSN were the future, but he changed his mind fairly quickly.
I’ve heard this same argument for DEI statements every time the topic has been debated: They sidestep arguments about DEI statements and instead retreat to safer arguments about how advancing DEI is a good thing.

On one hand, I get it. Arguing for DEI in an abstract sense is much easier than arguing for specific interventions.

On the other hand, this is the textbook example of a Motte-and-bailey fallacy, where the debater conflates two topics and then retreats to the safer position while hoping that the audience will accept it as an argument for the more difficult position.

DEI statements have been quite unpopular as specific interventions, as noted in the article by the way that the majority of staff disagreed with them when polled privately. However, speaking out against them publicly was viewed as a very risky move and serious career mistake, so they slowly slipped into mainstream acceptance.

It’s interesting to see how they’re now quietly being removed from processes with as little attention as possible. Nobody wants to be known as the person who campaigned against them publicly, but I suspect there are a lot of people feeling relief in this case as they’re being quietly removed from the process.
> Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) or Multifactor Authentication (MFA).

Not on any third party system, where you're locked out forever if you lose your second factor. Fuck that!

Only self-hosted, where you can recover via physical access.

(That should actually be the first advice: host the stuff yourself. People lose control of projects due to hosting them on third party services. Be the guy who can pull the power cord out of the wall.)
Thank you. In the immortal words of Aenea, "choose again".
Funny how often that seems to happen with the IDF.
> open a window for negotiating a permanent ceasefire.

Israeli government already very clearly and explicitly said that this window doesn't exist; that was my entire point. If he had said "we MAY still invade" or anything even slightly more qualified, then sure. But he didn't. Unless something went spectacularly wrong in translation, what I read is that he said in very clear terms that Israel will absolutely invade.

Whether that's just empty threads or not is a judgement call, but it's certainly not the language of good faith.
I suspect it's because inflation has been underestimated for the past ~hundred years. Over time, that really compounds.

A fairer way to look at it is how many years of the average citizens salary is it.

The manhattan project was $2B in 1944, or 121,000 median-family-years of work using salary figures from the 1940 census.

Apples stock buyback was $110B in 2024, or 122,910 median-family-years of work using figures from the 2022 census.

So, the inflation figures under represent the cost by a factor of 3.5 over those 80 years.
tuya-cloudcutter has entered the chat.

https://github.com/tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter
I don't think this is going to be a big issue. Those attacks have to be high-profile attacks. If you look at the xz backdoor, there was some top notch engineering behind it.

If we ever reach a level of LLMs being able to do that, we don't need any open source contributors any more. We just tell tell the LLM to program an operating system and it will just do it.
Trump isn’t president yet, nor is it guaranteed. For every isolationist American view you hear about, there are just as many Americans like myself who don’t want to abandon our allies.
My wife enjoys going to these struggle sessions on DEI for academics (she has a PhD in neuroscience). She’s of the opinion she hasn’t been oppressed and in fact has regularly given opportunity because of her sex, so when lecturers try to reason with her or she has to write these letters they don’t know how to respond. I’ve attended a few where they try to convince her she’s repressed and the entire room just starts arguing she is. Weirdest discussion to witness, especially when the real repressed folks are probably the janitors and security. Many never even had the opportunity to go to school
The purpose of the article is persuasive but the HN title is ambiguous and reads much more expository. I’m a New Yorker who walks, bikes, and drives, in roughly that order and it was clear to me that the author is pro-bollard.
I didn‘t ban it and the Israeli government certainly didn‘t ask me for my opinion. They had their own reasons and their own evidence and I only gave you _my_ reason for considering it fake news, which most of it is.
Cheaper labor, less opportunity to have negative impact, and you’re also probably biased and not looking for the projects that failed
> I've always tried to teach this to my junior engineers from a perspective of "we will need to maintain this for years..."

IMO that kind of long-term phrasing can sometimes backfire, because then the enthusastic junior engineer will go: "Ah! I'll impress everyone by making the most flexible configurable modular thingy!"

In other words, what TFA cautions against:

> The danger of the tar-pit is that instead of developing a solution to a problem, you develop a tool for solving problems. [...] situated right in the centre of some of the most attractive real-estate in your imagination. Tools that solve whole classes of problems in generic ways offer the potential for vast improvements is productivity.
Looking at some of these cases, each PR on their own doesn’t look suspicious, but it was what they all built up to — in some cases from multiple bad actor contributors that, on the surface, weren’t connected.
That’s a curious definition of a colony. Since I’m an American, I assume I could go live in these American colonies quite easily?
HN tends to avoid politics, but when it does show up, there is a definite bias if you look at the pattern of up and down votes. What's more interesting is seeing how that bias has changed over time.
It is still perfectly possible to access RT from Spain, even using regular ISP DNS servers.
What a great idea, it's not like something bad can happen when troops on the frontline are suddenly cut off from communications.

Don't let the fact that starlink belongs to Elon influence your critical thinking.
TSMC’s accomplishments are just greater than putting some TNT around enriched uranium
Um.

Had cops show up at the home of a child that was on a sports team of my daughter's. They were looking for her brother and took him in.

Afterwards we spoke more to her mother and found out that users in game forums had told him he could make these kinds of comments and it was free speech as long it wasn't a call to violence. Well I don't know the legalities, but I do know he was never welcome back at that school. (Nor even in the district for that matter.) Worse, the neighboring district got word, and they implemented their own machinations to ensure he was effectively banned from there as well. In the end, they sent him to live with relatives.

I wouldn't be so cavalier about telling people they can say things like this. It's like, well you can say anything. But if you say things that make oblique suggestions towards violence, expect to watched from that point on. And excluded from any activities that people believe would provide you opportunity to act on what they now suspect to be your intentions. You can't talk about indirect suggestions of violence against airliners, presidents, or students in high schools and still expect to be able to show up at the White House, or board an airliner, or go to the high school you attend. Society doesn't work like that these days.
Perhaps the folks working on the project in what is presumably their spare time for free do know this?
> I could say that I have read and compared the BBC to Truth Social, and decided that BBC is "fake news"; that doesn't mean it's actually true.

If you decide that 2+2=5 that indeed doesn‘t make it true.

I have merely said that I found that 2+2=4.
I find it weird that these get released as public records, but otherwise, laws against destroying evidence seem fine. And laws requiring disclosure of documents in a court to determine wrongdoing also seem fine. And laws requiring proper record keeping of decision making at large companies also seem fine. Particularly when the burden of record keeping (ensuring emails are not deleted) is not very large.
I never understood the american obsession with race (well, and sexuality).

I live in a small EU country on the edge of the balkans... what the hell should I write if I wanted to get hired? I'm white... everyone here is white... but just by living here, I might have a more "diverse" worldview (compared to a white american is massachussets, with enouh knowledge and money to attend MIT) than someone of a different race (also living in massachussets, with enough money and kowledge to attend MIT). But as to "what i've done", I can only put "saw two black people this year, both were tourists, saw a couple of buses of chinese tourists, or maybe japanese, I don't know".

Engineering schools should keep to engineering, killer robots won't care about your race, no matter if you're the one building them or the one making the weapons to fight against them.
Survivorship bias. Plenty of failures, incompetence, corruption, and stupidity before.

But it fades into history.
Qatar plays both sides. They have friendly relations with Hamas, Houthis and Iran.

AlJazeera is known to be untrustworthy on matters of the middle east. Just as BBC is untrustworthy on matters of UK international politics and the NYT [1] can't be trusted on US foreign policy matters.

AlJazeera, NYT and BBC are weapons of mass propaganda just like Globaltimes or RT. The main (and admittedly stark) difference is how often these weapons are deployed.

[]1 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublis...
No, it could not.

Ignoring the technical challenges and impossibilities of open sourcing it (Windows Phone 10 is Windows 10, and the Windows Phone 7/8 codebase was its own crazy beast that was tough enough to work with even when you were being paid to do so), mobile operators do not want you running custom code on their stack, and they are the ultimate gatekeepers of what devices are allowed to connect. There will never be a popular, easy to setup open source phone without a complete reworking of cellular service, at least in the US.
what does "Embracing diverse viewpoints" even mean

I could have phrased this better. What I meant was: being open minded to being proven wrong.

There are many academics who will not entertain any viewpoint that's contrary to their own belief and agenda. They will happily share papers that support their preconceived notions, and be hostile towards anyone who questions whether these papers have merit.
Israel is at risk of losing legitimacy. There is no evidence it is losing legitimacy. That’s an important difference.
To quote the link, and by golly does it seem germane to the topic at hand:

In the year 2081, the Constitution dictates that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, earpiece radios for the intelligent that broadcast loud noises meant to disrupt thoughts, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.
George and Hazel Bergeron have a 14-year old son named Harrison. He takes after his father, who is highly intelligent and physically strong. The government removes Harrison from his home. His parents are barely aware because of Hazel's low intelligence and George's mandated handicaps.
George and Hazel watch a ballet on TV. Some dancers are weighed down to counteract their gracefulness and masked to hide their attractiveness. George's thoughts are continually interrupted by the different noises emitted by his handicap radio. Hazel urges George to lie down and rest his "handicap bag", 47 pounds (21 kg) of weights locked around his neck. She suggests taking a few of the weights out of the bag, but George resists because it is against the law.
On TV, a reporter struggles to read a bulletin and hands it to the ballerina wearing the most grotesque mask and heaviest weights. She begins reading in her natural, beautiful voice before switching to a more unpleasant one. Harrison's escape from prison is announced, and a full-body photograph of him is shown. He is seven feet (2.1 m) tall and burdened by three hundred pounds (140 kg) of handicaps.
George recognizes his son for a moment, before having the thought eliminated by his radio. Harrison storms the TV studio in an attempt to overthrow the government. He declares himself Emperor and rips off both his own handicaps and those of a ballerina, whom he chooses as his Empress.
Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, enters the studio and kills Harrison and the Empress with two shotgun blasts. She threatens the musicians at gunpoint to put on their handicaps again. The TV goes dark. George, who left to get a beer and has returned, asks Hazel why she is crying, to which she replies that something sad happened on television that she cannot remember.
What a dystopian idea. I understand the reasoning but that is an extremely slippery slope for the rich to control the poor
You’ve accurately described the differences, but none of those things are relevant to the workplace. All the ways I’m actually different from Americans are just a source of consternation where I have to bite my tongue and remind myself that it’s their country and I have to put up with the dog in the office, etc.

As to “cheap to observe” information: you might observe that Asian and Mormon communities socialize people to work without complaining or making demands. That seems profitable in the workplace. Is that the kind of cheap to observe information you can rely on? (It’s not—it’s illegal!)
The defender's advantage only counts if the corporation is run by people smart enough to do something about it.

History is littered with out-innovated companies that are gone or clinging to relevance. Xerox, IBM, cable companies, telephone companies, every train company ever. All had a huge opportunity to disrupt their own business model and make even more money, almost none of them managed it.
Did you really mean mortality as in "exercising the 2nd Amendment", or morality?
Nothing but a misleading headline… Bloomberg as usual. From TFA: “Apple should go all-in on making them into true laptop replacements”…
Average family has a ton more in material goods, both in quality and quantity.

So it isn’t that inflation is underestimated. The average family truly is richer. Far more house. Far more car. Far more and better food.
“It will be several years before the court in The Hague will hand down its verdict, but we must not look at the catastrophic situation purely through legal lenses,” said Goldberg. “What is happening in Gaza is genocide because the level and pace of indiscriminate killing, destruction, mass expulsions, displacement, famine, executions, the wiping out of cultural and religious institutions, the crushing of elites (including the killing of journalists), and the sweeping dehumanization of the Palestinians — create an overall picture of genocide, of a deliberate conscious crushing of Palestinian existence in Gaza.”[1]

[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-yes-it-is-genocid...
I actually appreciate The Hill's opinion section and contributor editorials, as they regularly pierce my bubble and expose me to some, frankly, batshit opinions and bad ideas. But I think in moderation that's a good thing.

But I give more weight to The Hill's actual authors and editors. The name means something to me. Same as The Times, The Post, or (formerly) GiantBomb.
The Unbreakable Kryptos Code [video]
> and suddenly college students have access to thousands of $ of camping gear...

Students paying $65K/year in tuition fees can also afford a $100 tent? Must be covert Qatari funding for sure. /s
Evolution of Pay-It-Forward in the Presence of the Temptation to Free-Ride
I agree this is not good for Israel. A democracy is partly measured by its ability to tolerate voices it does not approve of. Israel should be stronger than this. I agree that using national security as an excuse is a slippery slope.

This is mostly a symbolic move that will make very little difference. Likely it will push Al Jazeera to be more anti-Israeli but I'm sure they can make up (pun intended) for their lack of physical presence in the region. People that want to consume that content in Israel will have no problem (many already get this via satellite).

A by the way is that this can still be challenged in the courts. If Al Jazeera chooses to go to the supreme court I imagine there's a pretty good chance that the decision will get overturned. They might intentionally decide not to do that because that outcome will put Israel in a positive light.